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Congrats Marc! The published a story about you on Reuters, and I happened to see it while browsing through http://www.nerdtreehouse.com/, and thought "I know a guy who is doing something like that"! I just wanted to say "congratulations" on both the Million Miles and the News story. (You might remember me from Perry's House, last week)

Nice, thats a hell of a trip you've been on... What kind of luggage to you typically bring with you? Do you like the wheely boxy things, or the wheely duffle things, or the shoulder strap duffle or the backpack or the messenger bag or what?

Marc,Congrats on a sick and worthy feat. But I'm curious to know how many actual miles you flew during the 61 day period (56 days flown) as opposed to hom many miles you earned from Air Canada's program, which I believe is what the miles refers to. And did any reporter ask you this question? To actually fly 1,003,625 miles in 56 days in commercial planes such as the 767-300 would, of course, be impossible. You would have to have flown 17,922 miles per day which equals 747 (!) miles per hour for every hour of the 56 day period. The stated cruising speed by Air Canada for the 767-300 is 530 miles which seems slightly higher than the average for the Air Canada fleet, and well below the 747 MPH needed to fly 1,003,625 miles in 56 days.

Seems as if all press and blog notices of your accomplishments state that you actually flew 1 million miles during that time period.....Has everyone lost their calculators and incredulity???

This from Boing Boing.... Man flies 1MM miles on a 60 day unlimited ticket, wins 10 more flightsMarc Tacchi bought a special $7,000 Air Canada ticket that gave him unlimited flights for 60 days, then set out to fly 1,000,000 miles. He accomplished it, flying 56 out of 60 days.